Coronavirus Ravages 7 Members of a Single Family, Killing 3 The matriarch of the large New Jersey family died Wednesday night without ever knowing that her two oldest children had died before her.
Grace Fusco, center, and her 11 children in a family photo.
Grace Fusco — mother of 11, grandmother of 27 — would sit in the same pew at church each Sunday, surrounded by nearly a dozen members of her sprawling Italian-American family. Sunday dinners drew an even larger crowd to her home in central New Jersey. Now, her close-knit clan is united anew by unspeakable grief: Mrs. Fusco, 73, died on Wednesday night after contracting the coronavirus — hours after her son died from the virus and five days after her daughter’s death, a relative said. Four other children who contracted coronavirus remain hospitalized, three of them in critical condition, the relative, Roseann Paradiso Fodera, said. Mrs. Fusco’s eldest child, Rita Fusco-Jackson, 55, of Freehold, N.J., died Friday; after her death, the family learned she had contracted the virus. Her eldest son, Carmine Fusco, of Bath, Pa., died on Wednesday, said Ms. Paradiso Fodera, the family’s lawyer who is Mrs. Fusco’s cousin and is serving as a spokeswoman.
Mrs. Fusco, of Freehold, died after spending Wednesday “gravely ill” and breathing with help from a ventilator, unaware that her two oldest children had died, Ms. Paradiso Fodera said.
Nearly 20 other relatives are quarantined at their homes, praying in isolated solitude, unable to mourn their deep collective loss together. “If they’re not on a respirator, they’re quarantined,” Ms. Paradiso Fodera said. “It is so pitiful,” she added. “They can’t even mourn the way you would.”
Ms. Fusco, with her son, Carmine Fusco, who died on Wednesday after contracting coronavirus. She died hours later.
As of Wednesday afternoon, five New Jersey residents had died after contracting the virus, which has infected at least 427 people statewide. Nationwide, at least 7,047 people across every state, plus Washington, D.C., and three U.S. territories, have tested positive for coronavirus, and at least 121 have died, according to a New York Times database.
But the virus’s devastating toll on a single family is considered as rare as it is perplexing. “They’re young and they don’t have any underlying conditions,” Ms. Paradiso Fodera said. Mrs. Fusco and four of her children were being treated at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, about an hour south of Manhattan, relatives said. Mr. Fusco died at a Pennsylvania hospital near his home, Ms. Paradiso Fodera said. The family has deep ties to the horse-racing industry near Freehold Raceway. Some trained horses. Others raced them. The children’s father, Vincenzo L. Fusco, did both, according to his obituary. A person who had contact with a man who died in New Jersey on March 10, becoming the state’s first coronavirus-related fatality, had attended a recent Fusco family gathering, the state’s health commissioner, Judith M. Persichilli, has said. The first New Jersey man to die has been identified by a close friend and the harness track where he worked, Yonkers Raceway, as John Brennan. Ms. Paradiso Fodera said the gathering was a routine Tuesday dinner. “A party to most people was a regular dinner to them,” she said before counting names on a family tree that listed 27 grandchildren.
The gathering is believed to be the source of the virus, and information about the number of people infected there led to a new intensity in Ms. Persichilli’s warnings over the weekend against even small get-togethers with friends or relatives. “I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to take personal responsibility and to avoid even small gatherings,” Ms. Persichilli said during a press briefing on Sunday.
Dr. James Matera, chief medical officer of CentraState Medical Center, said he had discussed the uniqueness of treating so many members of the same family with the state’s health commissioner and officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He said officials are in the process of evaluating the patients’ medical histories to look for clues about why the disease might have progressed so rapidly, and been so potent. “I don’t know if it’s a strain thing,” Dr. Matera said. “I would consider these particular people to be unusual.” Ms. Fusco-Jackson died a day before her test for coronavirus came back positive on Saturday evening.
Coronavirus Ravages 7 Members of a Single Family, Killing 3 The matriarch of the large New Jersey family died Wednesday night without ever knowing that her two oldest children had died before her. Grace Fusco — mother of 11, grandmother of 27 — would sit in the same pew at church each Sunday, surrounded by nearly a dozen members of her sprawling Italian-American family. Pompom 发表于 3/19/2020 5:47:15 AM
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Coronavirus Ravages 7 Members of a Single Family, Killing 3
The matriarch of the large New Jersey family died Wednesday night without ever knowing that her two oldest children had died before her.
Grace Fusco, center, and her 11 children in a family photo.
Grace Fusco — mother of 11, grandmother of 27 — would sit in the same pew at church each Sunday, surrounded by nearly a dozen members of her sprawling Italian-American family. Sunday dinners drew an even larger crowd to her home in central New Jersey. Now, her close-knit clan is united anew by unspeakable grief: Mrs. Fusco, 73, died on Wednesday night after contracting the coronavirus — hours after her son died from the virus and five days after her daughter’s death, a relative said. Four other children who contracted coronavirus remain hospitalized, three of them in critical condition, the relative, Roseann Paradiso Fodera, said. Mrs. Fusco’s eldest child, Rita Fusco-Jackson, 55, of Freehold, N.J., died Friday; after her death, the family learned she had contracted the virus. Her eldest son, Carmine Fusco, of Bath, Pa., died on Wednesday, said Ms. Paradiso Fodera, the family’s lawyer who is Mrs. Fusco’s cousin and is serving as a spokeswoman.
Mrs. Fusco, of Freehold, died after spending Wednesday “gravely ill” and breathing with help from a ventilator, unaware that her two oldest children had died, Ms. Paradiso Fodera said.
Nearly 20 other relatives are quarantined at their homes, praying in isolated solitude, unable to mourn their deep collective loss together. “If they’re not on a respirator, they’re quarantined,” Ms. Paradiso Fodera said. “It is so pitiful,” she added. “They can’t even mourn the way you would.”
Ms. Fusco, with her son, Carmine Fusco, who died on Wednesday after contracting coronavirus. She died hours later.
As of Wednesday afternoon, five New Jersey residents had died after contracting the virus, which has infected at least 427 people statewide. Nationwide, at least 7,047 people across every state, plus Washington, D.C., and three U.S. territories, have tested positive for coronavirus, and at least 121 have died, according to a New York Times database.
But the virus’s devastating toll on a single family is considered as rare as it is perplexing. “They’re young and they don’t have any underlying conditions,” Ms. Paradiso Fodera said.
Mrs. Fusco and four of her children were being treated at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, about an hour south of Manhattan, relatives said. Mr. Fusco died at a Pennsylvania hospital near his home, Ms. Paradiso Fodera said. The family has deep ties to the horse-racing industry near Freehold Raceway. Some trained horses. Others raced them. The children’s father, Vincenzo L. Fusco, did both, according to his obituary. A person who had contact with a man who died in New Jersey on March 10, becoming the state’s first coronavirus-related fatality, had attended a recent Fusco family gathering, the state’s health commissioner, Judith M. Persichilli, has said. The first New Jersey man to die has been identified by a close friend and the harness track where he worked, Yonkers Raceway, as John Brennan. Ms. Paradiso Fodera said the gathering was a routine Tuesday dinner. “A party to most people was a regular dinner to them,” she said before counting names on a family tree that listed 27 grandchildren.
The gathering is believed to be the source of the virus, and information about the number of people infected there led to a new intensity in Ms. Persichilli’s warnings over the weekend against even small get-togethers with friends or relatives. “I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to take personal responsibility and to avoid even small gatherings,” Ms. Persichilli said during a press briefing on Sunday.
Dr. James Matera, chief medical officer of CentraState Medical Center, said he had discussed the uniqueness of treating so many members of the same family with the state’s health commissioner and officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He said officials are in the process of evaluating the patients’ medical histories to look for clues about why the disease might have progressed so rapidly, and been so potent. “I don’t know if it’s a strain thing,” Dr. Matera said. “I would consider these particular people to be unusual.” Ms. Fusco-Jackson died a day before her test for coronavirus came back positive on Saturday evening.
讲真他们家应该都是有existing condition 的
mm在日本吧。能不能讲讲为什么日本控制得这么好。带口罩？自律？还是因为有人猜测的测得少？
东京肯定是测得少了 至于死亡率低 大概是因为怕死吧 日本老年人其实也是一样的不堪一击 所以老年人都很怕 日本人都是很惜命的 比中国人还怕死 特别讲究养生 他们人人觉得自己能活100岁很怕新冠打碎这个梦吧
谢谢mm提供一线资料。
日本不是不爆是时候未到 大阪和旁边的兵库已经预测即将迎来爆发 明天开始日本的春分长周末正好赶上樱花开放 两周以后看吧 我感觉日本年轻人都挺能作死的
是不是也有可能是有什么genetic predisposition, 但是不属于disease的范畴
不好意思，手滑点了踩。。。
第一个传染的人也死了，据说他是经常要去nyc的
没居家隔离啊，这家就是家庭聚会互相传染的。
美国人平均体型那么胖，随便抓一个超重的出来测，就算没高血压痛风，我估计胰岛素抵抗基本都是有的。
不知道老美哪来的自信自己可以轻松扛过。
被传染的概率都是一样的，只是得了病的人，有糖尿病高血压的，死亡率重症率要高于一般人
日本老年人不是每年新年吃年糕都能噎死1000人吗？
政府说基础疾病时，不说肥胖 简直是害死人！！这个病肥胖绝对算health issues
高血压糖尿病也能肉眼看出来？
这家应该是聚会时几个人同时被感染。
可以仔细说说吗？谢谢。
应该是很有用的信息
CentraState Medical Center硬件条件外面看起来很好，不知道为什么周围的人都说她家不好。
怕死好啊，怕死了就不乱走动自己降低风险了。再加上日本是个非常自律的民族，比起自由散漫的欧美人来说，风险小很多。
肥胖起码是impaired glucose tolerance,免疫系统已经不同了。
意大利裔。意大利死亡也率最高。是不是因爲意大利人含有什麽特定基因造成的？
而且胖的人ards死亡危险比较高
真的！
武汉有过不少全家团灭，当时已经有人说染上这个病最后结果如何跟基因有关
同意。这么一提醒 我还作了不少手术。拔智齿， 矫正视力
不知道有没有跟踪过李文亮看过的患者
他家人到底有什么基础病么？
还是死的都是老人？
要是刚做就感染新冠，我觉得会有影响，有创伤的情况下身体的免疫反应不会很正常，要是以前做的早就完全康复了，拔智齿切阑尾应该没事吧，换膝盖有异物在体内，就不知道了。
美国媒体这么说的，年轻人也会感染，但是死亡率放在那里，后遗症目前有不知道。所以年轻人根本不在乎。
日本有在持续不断的测试吗？
最近开始提对年轻人也不是那么轻了，年轻人如果不自觉配合social distancing，麻烦很大。
年纪最大的长辈73，其他三个死者都是她的孩子。新闻没提到基础病，照片上看这一家人体型偏胖
年轻人反应慢一些。国短时间才会体现出来。让那些自私的，不负责任的成天party的年轻人去感染吧。
看来其他三个也50左右了。